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- From: sld@phys.ksu.edu (Steve Davis)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: Those wacky DOS options
- Date: 1 Sep 1992 17:50:05 GMT
- Organization: Kansas State University
- Lines: 31
- Message-ID: <180agdINNf63@moe.ksu.ksu.edu>
- References: <1992Sep1.163413.10351@pacdata.uucp>
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- In <1992Sep1.163413.10351@pacdata.uucp> jimh@pacdata.com (Jim Harkins) writes:
-
- >I just bought a 486 box and put OS/2 on it, one of the first things I discovered
- >is that Wolf3d won't run under OS/2. Last night I spent a couple of hours
- >screwing around with the DOS settings with no luck. So I've got 2 questions.
-
- >1). How do I make Wolf3d run?
-
- Almost all games require the Video_Retrace_Emulation setting to be off;
- almost all require full screen.
-
- >2). When a program won't run, how do you figure out which of the 20-30
- > setting to screw with? I doubt the problem is with exclusive mouse
- > access or something like that, so I'm down to about 20 options to
- > try.
-
- Almost all of the settings can be left alone for any reasonable program.
- Video access is the real problem in most cases.
-
- By the way -- does anyone know anything about getting Crystal Caves
- or Secret Agent running? They're both EGA games, so things work a
- little bit differently. My main problem is when scrolling, the bottom
- few lines (score, etc) flicker and jerk around. Also, about once every
- five seconds, the entire game will pause for about a second, and then
- it continues.
-
- Any ideas?
-
- Steve Davis
- sld@phys.ksu.edu
-
-